> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 26](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264749) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/30649-1) LSID 30649-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315861) QID Q315861 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Adanson, Michel|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Adanson, Michel (1727-1806), French botanist and explorer, born in Aix-en-Provence, from 1730 resident in Paris, educated at the Collège du Cardinal Lemoine and the Collège de France, later at the Jardin du Roi and the Collège Royal, more specifically interested in botany from 1745; in Senegal as a bookkeeping clerk, but with the purpose to study the botany of the area 1749-1754; from then on in Paris mainly dedicated to botany, member of Académie Royale des Sciences in various ranks from 1750. **Abbreviated name**: *Adans.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Adans.*\] #### Herbarium and types See TL-2/1: 9, apart from the main collections at [[Collection P|P]], also some material at [[Collection PC|PC]]; further Adanson material in [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection P|P]]-JU and [[Collection P|P]]-LA. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 358; Ainsworth p. 10, 254, 311; Backer p. 7; Barnhart 1: 16; BM 1: 11; Bossert p. 3; Dawson p. 6; Dryander 3: 20, 32, 217, 301, 400, 410, 415, 530; Frank 3(Anh.): 3; GR p. 59, 265; Hortus 3: 1187; HU 2: 582(index), see also 1: 287-288; IH 2: 27; Jackson p. 18, 352; Kew 1: 12; KR p. 4; Langman p. 67; Lasègue p. 21, 29, 316, 442, 504, 551, 557; LS 692-693; Moebius p. 441(index); Plesch p. 122-123; PR 20-22, ed. 1: 44-45; SO 645, 646, 1398a, 2542a; TL-1: 1-2; TL-2/1: 9-10, 4: see p. 1160, 5: no. 10.370, see Schreber and Scopoli, and see indexes; Tucker 1: 30; Zander ed. 10, p. 627, ed. 11, p. 712. #### Biofile - *Note*: see also the list of biographical studies of Adanson *in* G.H. Lawrence, ed., (1): - J-P. Nicolas, Adanson the man, *in* Adanson, The bicentennial of... Familles des Plantes, Hunt bot. Library 1: 118, 121. 1963, (2) as well as the further studies in this volume. - Adanson, M., Obs. Phys. Hist. nat. (ed. Rozier) 5: 257-274. 1775 ("Plan & tableau de mes ouvrages manuscrits..."). - Anon., Comm. reb. sci. nat. med. 6(1): 181. 1757 (announcement of his Hist. nat. Sénégal), 21(1): 171-173. 1775 (announcement of A's plans to publish a Dictionnaire encyclopédique); Bot. Zeit. 14: 832. 1850 (on statue in bot. gard. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris); Bull. Soc. bot. France 4: 585-587. 1857 (note on A's herbarium then still with E. Doumet, Cette; these collections came later to P); Kew Bull. 1934(8): 342-343. 1934. - Aymonin, G., Bull. Soc. bot. France 127 (Lettres bot.): 387-391. 1950 (on A. in 1779). - Baillon, H.E., Dict. bot. 1: 45. 1876 (detailed account). - Barnhart, J.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 23: 164 (footnote). 1922. - Burckhardt, R.W., The spirit of system 17, 25, 26, 49, 77, 78, 79, 80, 116. 1977. - Burtt, B.L., Notes R.B.G. Edinburgh 26: 427-431. 1966 (A. and modern taxonomy). - Callen, G., Jard. France 5: 17-32. 1974. - Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. souv. 141. 1862. - Chevalier, A., C.R. Acad. Sci. 197: 789. 1833 (A. mutationniste et évolutionniste). - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 245, 288. 1969. - Cuvier, G., Mém. Cl. Sci. mat. phys. Inst. France 1806(2): 159-188. 1807 ("Éloge historique"), Engl. transl. Edinburgh new phil. J. ser. 2. 3: 1-21. 1827. (see also German necrology: Intell.-Bl. allg. Lit. Z. 1806: 1257-1260. 1806.). - Dandy, J.E., Regn. veg. 51: 10. 1967 (on status of *Fam. pl.*). - Darlington, W., Reliq. Baldwin 343. 1843. - Fée, A.L.A., Mém. Soc. sci. agric. Lille 1: 155-158. 1831. - F.H., Adanson, *in* Hoefer, ed., Nouv. biogr. gén. 1: 249-256. 1855. - Fries, L.M., Bref skrifv. Linné 1(2): 322. 1908, 1(3): 69, 71, 172. 1909, 1(4): 148, 308. 1910, 1(5): 7, 56, 127. 1911, 1(6): 32, 317, 434. 1912, 1(7): 78, 79, 90, 94. 1917. - Froidevaux, H., Bull. geogr. hist. descr. 1893(2): \[15 p.\] 1893 (on a plan of a journey to Guyana by A.; text n.v.). - Glass B. et al., Forerunners of Darwin 151-157, 172. 1968. - Guédès, M., Rev. Hist. Sci. 20: 361-386. 1967. - Hallé, N., Adansonia ser. 2. 9(4): 465-487. 1969 (on the A. herbarium). - Haller, A., Bibl. bot. 2: 461. 1772. - Hamy, E.T., Les débuts de Lamarche suivies de recherches sur Adanson \[et al.\]. 1909, 345 p. - Heim, R.J., Michel Adanson 1727-1806. Paris 1963 (portr., handwriting). - Hochreutiner, B.J.G., La biographie d'Adanson par... Aug. Chevalier, Bull. Soc. bot. Genève 533me séance, 18 Feb 1935 (2 p.). - Hulth, J.M., Bref skrifv. Linné 1(8): 191-192. 1922, 2(1): 1-6, 111, 124. 1916. - Hulth, J.M. and A.H. Uggla, Bref skrifv. Linné 2(2): 116, 171, 172, 173. 1943. - Jacobs, M., Taxon 15: 51-55. 1966 ("Adanson – the first neo-adansonian", discusses question: was A. a numerical taxonomist?). - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 473(index). 1864. - Johnson, D.E., Huntia 6(1): 14-15. 1905 (documentation on *Fam. pl.*). - Joly, P., Bull. Soc. myc. France 100(3): 5-7. 1984 (on A's mycology). - Kuntze, O., Rev. gen. pl. 3(1): cxxiii. 1893. - Lacroix, A., Figures de Savants 4: see index. 1938. - Lawalrée, A., Adansonia ser. 2. 15(2): 287-288. 1975 (letter to Belanger, full text; written 25 Dec 1798). - Lawrence, G.H.M., Huntia 1: 164. 1964 (acquisition by Hunt Inst. of A's library as well as a collection of 116 letters to A.). - Leroy, J.F. et al., Bot. franç. Amér. nord 8, 68, 110. 1957. - Lütjeharms, W.J., Gesch. Mykol. 217. 1936. - Moniz, T. da S., Acoreana 4(1). 1948 (on A. and the Azores). - Monod, Th. and J.P. Nicolas, Michel Adanson 1727-1806, Plaquette... Paris 1963 (see Taxon 12: 301. 1963 for further details on this relatively scarce brochure). - Morton, A.G., Hist. bot. Sci. 301-311, 325. 1981. - Nicolas, J.P., *in* G. Lawrence, ed., Adanson (ed. Hunt libr.) 1: 1-121. 1963 ("Adanson, the man"; main biogr.); J. Agric. trop. Bot. appl. 11: 231-249. 1964; C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 260: 2107-2109. 1965. - Parkinson, P.G., Taxon 36: 81-87, 87-97, 601-608. 1987 (unorthodox view of status of A's nomenclature; no action on this taken by nomenclature section, Berlin 1987). - Rickett, H.W. and F.A. Stafleu, Taxon 10: 71. 1961 (on status of *Fam. pl.*). - Rix, M., The art of the botanist 118. 1981. - Rocquigny-Adanson, G. de, Rev. sci. Bourbonnais 14(162): 89-90, *1 pl*. 1901 (un dessin d'A.). - Rothmaler, W., Feddes Repert. 53(1): 31 (Hist. nat. Sénégal early 1757), 35 (vol. 2, *Fam. pl.* publ. early 1763). 1944. - Sachs, J., Gesch. Bot. 71, 124, 589, 606. 1875; Hist. bot. 69, 121, 577. 1892. - Scheler, Rev. Hist. Sci. 14: 257-284. 1961 (A. as "redacteur" of the program of prices of the Acad. Sci.). - Schlechtendahl, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 24: 148-149. 1866 (detailed review of TL-2/27, Payer ed. of *Fam. pl.*, 1864). - Smith, J.E., Selection corr. Linnaeus 2: 465-471. 1821 (letter to Smith). - Stafleu, F.A. (et al.), *in* facs. ed. 1963 of L'Héritier, Sertum anglicum, p. xiv, xvii, xviii, xxxiii, xlvi, lvii, lxxiv. - Stafleu, F.A., *in* G. Lawrence, ed., Adanson (ed. Hunt libr.) 1: 123-264. 1963 (on A. and the *Fam. pl.*), 2: 529-618. 1964 (A's sources, references and abbr.) (rev. e.g. by R.C.G. Desmond, Kew Bull. 19(2): 230. 1965, E. Milne-Redhead, Kew Bull. 20(2): 304. 1966; see also Taxon 12: 301. 1963). - Stafleu, F.A., *in* facsimile reprint of Adanson's *Fam. pl.*, Lehre 1966, p. v-xv (new preface), Hist. Nat. class, no. 46; also in F.A. Stafleu, Adanson, Labillardière, de Candolle, Lehre 1967, p. 5-15. - Stafleu, F.A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 310-320, 365. 1971 (relation with L.). - Stearn, W.T., Adanson, *in* P. Gray, ed., Encycl. biol. Sci. 11: 176. 1961. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 12-16. 1981 (descr. arch. A. at Hunt Inst.). - Swainson, W., Taxidermy 2: 100-104. 1840 (critical acct. of Hist. nat. Sénégal, coquillages). - Traub, H.P., Plant life 16: 159. 1960, 22: 12-17. 1966 (on A. and Amaryllid.). - Vallot, J., Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 171-172. 1882 (on his work in Senegal). - Whetzel, H.H., Outline hist. phytopath. 28. 1918.